Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries: Proceedings of the 7th North American Workshop held in Campbridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., January 12–15, 1983

ISBN-13: 9789401088497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 472 str.

D.Q. Lamb;J. Patterson

Opis

Since 1976 a meeting devoted to recent research on cataclysmic variables ("CV workshop") has been held annually somewhere in North America. Many of the meetings have been held - following a custom older than anyone reading this book - in locations with well-known recreational potential (e. g. Santa Cruz, CA; Boulder, CO). We thought hard about this custom while contemplating the possibility of organi- zing a meeting in Massachusetts in the middle of winter. Nobody wants their meeting to go down in history as the smallest and dullest, and it ~ surely be the coldest. But on occasion, meeting organizers have defied custom and scheduled meetings for less~than-trendy places, and gotten away with it (Ur*bana, IL and Rochester, NY must be reckoned as examples of this). Encouraged by the spatial and temporal proximity of the American Astronomical Society meeting (Boston, January 9-12), we thought we might get away with it again, and so came to organize a meeting for January 12-15, 1983, in Cambridge, MA. There was another reason for a meeting at this time and place, we loftily proclaimed in early mailings. No one doubts that the CV's are closely related to the low-mass X-ray binaries ("LMXB' s"), in which the accreting star is usually, or perhaps always, more compact than a white dwarf. Many of the general characteristics of LMXB's sound pretty familiar to any student of CV's: orbital periods in the range 0.

Spis treści

I. Evolution of Compact Binaries.- Evolution of Cataclysmic Binaries.- Pre-Cataclysmic Binaries.- Abell 41, A Cataclysmic Variable Progenitor.- The Breakdown of Nuclear Quasi-Equilibrium in Highly Compact Binaries.- A Systematic Study of Magnetic Braking in Low-Mass Binaries.- Magnetic Braking and the Origin and Evolution of Close Low-Mass Binaries.- On The Evolutionary Status of Bright, Low-Mass X-Ray Sources.- II. Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries.- Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries.- Galactic Bulge X-Ray Burst Sources From Distrupted Globular Clusters?.- General Discussion: On Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries.- X-Ray Luminous White Dwarf Binaries in Globular Clusters.- Three-Body Interactions and Cataclysmic Binaries in Globular Clusters.- The Evolution of Highly Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters.- General Discussion: On Binary Evolution in Globular Clusters.- Radiation Transfer in Accretion Disk Coronae.- Hydrodynamic Simulations of a Combined Hydrogen, Helium Thermonuclear Runaway on a 10 km Neutron Star.- Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Galactic Bulge Sources Observed by Hakucho.- The Mass Transfer Rate in X1916-053: Is It Driven by Gravitational Radiation?.- Cos-B X-Ray Observations of Cygnus X-3.- III. Am Herculis and DQ Herculis-Stars.- The AM Herculis Magnetic Variables.- Recent Developments in the Theory of AM Her and DQ Her Stars.- CW 1103+254: The AM Her Object That Has Everything.- General Discussion: On AM Herculis Stars.- AM Herculis: An Outburst at 4.9 GHz.- Synchronization of Magnetic White Dwarfs in Close Binary Systems.- Orientations of AM Her Stars from Their Polarization Properties: The Case of the Missing AM Her Stars.- Time Dependent Accretion Flows in the AM Her Systems.- Stability of Radiative Shock Waves.- General Discussion: On Shock Wave Instabilities.- Intermediate Polars.- General Discussion: On DQ Her Stars.- A Comparison of H2252-035/AO PSC and 4U1849-31/V1223 SGR.- IV. Novae and Dwarf Novae.- Ultra-Violet Radiation from Dwarf Nova Discs.- On the Nature of Dwarf Novae.- Dwarf Novae Eruptions.- Accretion Instability Models for Dwarf Novae and X-Ray Transients.- Dwarf Novae — A Hot Dam Instability.- General Discussion: On Dwarf Novae Eruptions.- First Detection of Radio Emission From a Dwarf Nova.- Photoionization Models for the Wind From TW Vir.- Orbital Periods of Novae Before Eruption.- Cataclysmic Variables as Probes of X-Ray Properties of Interstellar Grains.- On Measuring the Radial Velocity of White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Binaries.- V. Accretion Disks.- Accretion Discs.- The Cataclysmic Variable GD552.- A Summary of the UV, Optical and IR Properties of Disks in CV’s.- White Dwarf/Accretion Disk Interactions: Instabilities of Infinite, Differentially Rotating Cylinders.- Boundary Layers and Coronae in Cataclysmic Variables.- Accretion Disks in Symbiotic Stars and Their Relationship to Cataclysmic Binaries.- Accretion Disks.- Distances, Accretion Rates, and Space Densities of Cataclysmic Variables: Piece O’ Cake, and Other Heresies.- Author Index.- Star Index.